etheric ocean
...J.R.Carpenter
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a(c)company..........................................
private code suggests
ALL COMMUNICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY
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[ neither either nor ether ]
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soundings...
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[ "If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you." Leonardo da Vinci, 1490 ]
[ If you look. Through the window, through the night. Ripples of light break over their bodies - blue and white - like waves in the wake of a swimmer, long laps of legs kicking and endless reaching arms. ]
this sea is nothing in sight but isles.............................................................a company of isles......................................full of fa(i)r sounds......... . . . . . . . . .........................within these sounds we sent our boats..........................................................into the [e(i)ther....................................]................ ..............................................................an etheric ocean................................................an ocean of static........................................................................................an ocean of silence.........................................an ocean of [noise...........................................].
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fa(i)r sounds.............
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household light bulb
dropped overboard
with rock attached
self-implosion
sounds impulsive
at 100 meters
distinctive echoes
correspond to water
and hydrophone depth
counter calling from
unidentified species
in the presence
of gray whales
seals had not been
seen in the area
someday perhaps
we will learn
what makes
these sounds
two sonobuoys
7 miles apart
Bering Sea
57 N 164 W
sperm whale codas
geographically variable
patterned sets of
communication clicks
first set on sonobuoy
second on towfish
hydrophone
4/1/97
29 28' N 147 11' W
sperm whales stereo
sonobuoy vertical
hydrophone pair
separated by 3m
left = upper
all females
and juveniles
greater than
30 animals
5/27/97
29 27' N 147 11' W
sperm whales
with boings
minke song
and humpback
sonobuoy on left
2 km north of right
one male sperm whale
producing 'big' or
long range clicks
3/30/97
23 11' N 159 04' W
thump trains
minke whale songs
produced in winter
in breeding season
near Martinique
West Indies
January 2000
toothed whale sounds
false killer whales
(Pseudorca)
towfish
hydrophone
sonobuoy
6/1/97
25 34' N 136 00' W
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Certified Track of S.S. Philadelphia American Line Showing Points Where Mr. G. Marconi Received Messages From Cornwall, England, by Wireless Telegraphy.
shores between in receiving and sending between in signals between in messages between in hours off the during record the off themselves between themselves amongst about spoke ship this board on were who those what is about wonder I what know you
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PRIVATE CODE May 1904

FORTYSEVEN Weak Xs

FORTYEIGHT Moderate Xs

FORTYNINE Strong Xs

FIFTY Nothing

FIFTYONE Nothing because not there

FIFTYTWO Nothing because of Xs

FIFTYTHREE Very weak unreadable

FIFTYFOUR Very weak partially readable

FIFTYFIVE Very weak readable

FIFTYSIX Weak unreadable

FIFTYSEVEN Weak readable

FIFTYEIGHT Weak partially readable

FIFTYNINE Moderately strong unreadable

SIXTY Moderately strong readable

SIXTYONE Moderately strong partially readable

SIXTYTWO Strong unreadable

SIXTYTHREE Strong readable

SIXTYFOUR Strong partially readable

SIXTYFIVE Being jambed

SIXTYSIX Jambing overcome

DELETA Primary of jigger

HIRBENIOS Aerial

DISORNATA Earth

BOOMBRAND Send programme

EMBARGADOS Send programme

JACUNDA Send programme

RATS Condensers

BOBINAS Turns of secondary jigger

CORDATED Inductance

BIROLARE Capacity

INGROTTA Insulation

INDURRO Millimeters

INDOVINI Centimeters

HOMOTIPIA Feet